Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts.

How to hide from killer drones.

Your Browser Does Math Differently on Every OS, and Anti-Bot Systems Read the Bits.

Libby Isn't Your Library. It's a Private Equity Asset.

Want to own a real T. rex? It could cost you $30 million. Yes, but I’m gonna need it to be alive and chompin’ for that price.

Billionaire exodus? California drew 10 times more venture capital than any other state this year.

Forget coders. The real AI threat is in the back office. Correct.

Researchers are using tools from causality theory to understand the keys to an algorithm working at a higher level of abstraction.

France’s edge in the AI race is cheap energy — if American big tech doesn’t plug in first.

From A.I. to the Deep State, Michel Foucault Foresaw It All.

F.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry. So cool.

Major housing affordability bill is now law even though Trump didn’t sign it.

One U.S. visa program is growing rapidly. No one is happy with it.

Stewarded open source is not enough: who can cut you off?

US Government Sold $743 Billion of Treasury Securities this Week, 30-Year Yield at 5.06% on Inflation, Lax Fed, Supply Fears.

Einstein’s relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows. This was already known. I’ve read papers 20+ years old about this. But still cool.

QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall.

The Vintage Beauty Of Soviet Control Rooms.

Almost $1 Billion Later, the US Still Can’t Make a Medical Glove.

One habit I see a lot, and have to push back on, is taking a tool’s shortcomings and reselling them as a “puzzle game” which is “fun” to solve. Good point about utter moronicism.

A Jupiter-size planet that escaped its star’s death.

China recovered its first reusable rocket and showed a new way to do it.

El Niño Is Already Wreaking Havoc on Pacific Fisheries.

49% Of young adults live at home, up 12 points since 2019. An economist says the fallout will reshape marriage, kids, and home-buying.

Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%.

Why Does The F-47’s Design Look So Different Than What Many Expected?

Supercarrier USS Abraham Lincoln Passes 200 Consecutive Days At Sea Mark.

What Big Food Did to Ice Cream.

EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0.

The Glass Backbone: Why the Army’s Logistics Will Break in the Next War.

Why American ambulance rides are so expensive.

Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search.

What's really slowing down the AI buildout.

Alarm over launch of facial recognition in UK shops that instantly alerts police.

Gen Z's new roommates: mom and dad.

Is an air-conditioning revolution coming to Europe?

There Are Now Only 5 Major Metros Where A Typical Luxury Home Costs Less Than $1 Million.

Japan does not cut down centuries-old trees for development. Instead, experts spend months preparing their roots and relocating them.

Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees.

How Donkey Kong toppled Atari. Damn back in the day I used to play Donkey Kong a lot.

My road trip with the do-gooding cactus smugglers.

The fanfiction community is at war with AI — and itself.

Risks of synchronized low yields are underestimated in climate and crop model projections.

SpaceX is on track for record-setting Starlink deployments. Cool.

More nukes, more NATO: Will Macron’s makeover of French defense last?

Sunderji's Paradox: Why rising incomes never seem to make rent more affordable.

Shooting Starlink: The “no limits” partnership between Russia and China is taking aim at Elon Musk.

Microsoft 0-day patch introduces a new attack path, researcher says.

Payloads used to dictate the terms of launch. That’s finally changing.

Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free.

Under a new federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid.

One state epitomizes the reason America lacks starter homes.

For gamers, the fight to ‘save the disc’ is about more than nostalgia.

Why Smucker’s $5 Billion Bet on the Twinkie Flopped.

Obamacare Insurers Seek Big Rate Hikes, Again.

Florida Cities Are Already Cutting Spending Ahead of Pivotal Property-Tax Vote.

The oldest deliberately collected fossil ichthyosaur was discovered in Roman Britain around 1,800 years ago.

US rare earths flow to Asia as domestic demand is slow to emerge.

Meet 'Project 2029' — and its war on the annoyance economy.

Toyota to invest $3.6 billion to move Tacoma pickup truck production from Mexico to Texas.

NATO Picks Saab GlobalEye To Replace Aging E-3 AWACS Fleet.

The State of the AI Economy.

NATO’s New Enemy Is the Thermometer.

Kremlin suspected of flying drones over Europe using Russian shadow fleet.

Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach. Would never install a game with this evil crap.

Titan’s Resources and their Utilization.

China test-launches a ballistic missile in the South Pacific and raises regional concerns.

Samsung’s Profit In 2026 Will Exceed Its Cumulative Profit Generated Over The Past 40 Years.

Discord accidentally banned over 8,000 people for posting grids and other ‘benign’ images.

Here’s Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately.

Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are suffering industrial rot.

Sufficient for What? A Silent Revolution in Macroeconomics.

How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi.

AI models’ values are very different from most people’s.

America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who We Are.

To save capitalism we need radical land-use reform.

It's a little silly to say that Beijing managed to deflate a massive housing bubble at no cost.

Data centres are a crucial test of US industrial resolve.

AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress.

The evidence against “ultra-processed” foods is weaker than you think.

My Take on the Zero-Sum New-Vehicle Market in the US: Decades of Stagnation & Decline Interrupted by Steep Plunges.

GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse (part 1).

Full writeup of the Windows GDID.

FCC to end Biden-era rule that forces ISPs to list all their fees.

On Wall Street, analysts increasingly don't believe the U.S. government's 'misleading' job numbers.

America’s Wheat Harvest Set to Fall to Lowest Level in 150 Years.

How private equity destroyed an American pastime.

Married Americans tend to be wealthier and happier. Gen Z is forgoing the institution anyway.

Gavin Newsom wants to ban the "buy, borrow, die" tax strategy. Here's what it is.

The missing 500 million: Cosmic bombardment melted Earth’s first crust.

Chemical accidents rise as Trump administration proposes weakening safety rules.

Europe's new climate in seven charts.

The truth is that I regard about 90% of the debate on multiculturalism as a complete waste of time.

Having the ladder pulled up on you isn’t a mental health condition.

The Private Capture of Public Genius.

Intel confirms price hikes on select consumer and server CPUs citing supply costs and demand — select Xeon processors now over $1,000 more expensive.

Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe.

When the ability to smell goes away.

Archaeologists uncover ancient Byzantine city in Egypt’s western desert.

Microsoft Disclosure Provides Rare Glimpse of Tax Haven Tactics.

Decades-Old Bash Tricks Expose AI Coding Agents to Supply Chain Attacks.

If you’re a button, you have one job.

Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams.

Six-Month Treasury Yield Rises to 4%: Bond Market Tells the Fed to Get on with the Rate Hikes.

Memory price surge begins to cool as consumers hit affordability limit — AI demand still keeps DRAM and NAND prices climbing through Q3 2026.

How baby formula recalls have mounted amid Trump staff cuts to the FDA.

The Demoralization of The White-Collar Worker.

Desire for privacy is slowly killing this symbol of the American Dream.

Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches.

The Circuit that Lets Your Brain Think and See.

Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation rate falls to lowest in 50 years, outside of Covid era.

Labor Market Tightens despite Tepid Job Growth as Labor Force Declines further amid Crackdown on Illegal Immigration.

Giant wheat starch granules—a leap forward in biological engineering with potential benefits for diet, manufacturing.

Russia “Highly Likely” Behind Drone Incursions Over U.S. Bases In England Report Concludes.

Ex-Microsoft engineer rebuilds Notepad in 2.5KB using nothing but stuff Windows already had.

A leaked Microsoft experiment reveals a new OS built entirely around Copilot and AI agents. No thank you.

A Tale of Two Markets: Luxury Home Prices Are Rising 3 Times Faster Than Non-Luxury Prices.

You can keep chasing things down until you find the ultimate victims and give them the right to set the terms, but you'll have to salvage their DNA to do it, because they're dead.

Ryanair warns of 'queue chaos' from new EU border system.

Rape Gang Busted In The UK For Illegal Air Conditioner Use.

Foreign Influence in the Campaign against American AI, Part II: The Singham Ground Game.

There’s Nothing Democratic About These Socialists.

Everything Good Depends on Economic Growth.

They may not be nearly as clever as us, but their working memories are huge.

The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't.

Virginia Bans Sale of Geolocation Data.

Reality has a surprising amount of detail.

Nasa launches mission to save falling space telescope.

Supreme Court upholds bans on transgender athletes participating in women and girls' sports. Good.

The Pull Back Car.

Biggest wind farm powers up, but Trump’s opposition freezes billions in clean energy.

Inflation & Nominal Economic Growth to the Rescue: The US Government’s Ugly Fiscal Mess.

Gen Z and millennials aren’t convinced the American Dream exists anymore: Only 40% of them can afford to buy a home.

I'm obsessed with what's happening in AI reforestation right now.

This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. And It’s Manmade.

Putin’s economy is running on fumes after Ukrainian attacks.

Bring Back Crappy Forums.

School smartphone bans seen as ‘punitive’ by young people, study says.

Gabe Newell: "Piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue" — Sony just proved why digital storefronts are broken.

RAM prices expected to rise another 40-50% in Q3 2026, and then 30% more in Q4 as AI demand outpaces supply.

We Were Way Off About How Many Insect Species Live on Earth.

US renewable boom passes key milestone in April.

Is America becoming a gerontocracy?

The AI boom and geopolitics are rewiring Asia’s oceans.

Donald Trump is kicking out Chinese firms and keeping their tech.

Some 60-year-old Americans can’t retire because they still have student loan debt.

Trump cut off support for Ukrainian defense. It didn’t work out for Russia.

NASA may send a backup, nuclear-powered Mars rover to the Moon.

Gripen E Fighters Officially Ordered By Ukraine.

China’s Truck-Mounted Electromagnetic Aircraft Catapult Seen In Action For The First Time.

Where Are The Aircraft Carriers: June 29, 2026.

Ukraine’s vibe shift is bad news for Russia’s economy.

Crimea’s big cities in total blackout after Ukrainian drone strikes.

NASA races to save Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with daring rescue mission.

NASA’s X-59 “frankenjet” tests supersonic flight without the sonic boom.

Supreme Court allows firing of FTC commissioners, ends agency independence. Ugh.

European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage.

South Korean tech giants commit over $550B to ease ‘ RAMageddon’.

Stubborn 6.5% mortgage rates cause stunning housing market change. High mortgage payments and elevated home prices fuel a massive generational shift.

Britons ordered to remove air conditioning from homes in 40C heat under Net Zero crackdown.

Then, you have the moderates. They often distinguish themselves by insisting on "statistics" and hard facts and refusing to accept common sense arguments and "what is before their eyes". The "just anecdotes" dismissal treats empirical observations as epistemically worthless unless accompanied by a regression table.

Is political polarization dangerous? Study provides clearer answers.

The Politics of Cooling.

Scientists Think Uranus and Neptune May Not Be the Ice Giants We Imagined.

The AI jobs debate just got messier.

China Has Matched Anthropic in Cybersecurity, Resetting AI Race. Clampdown on top U.S. artificial intelligence is fueling concern that Washington is handing Beijing a cyberwarfare advantage.

How Europe Became the World Champion of Heat Deaths.

AI coding token costs are on track to rival human payroll.

Renewables just hit 30% of US electricity generation.

The Internet Is Drowning in Secret Ads.

Europe's heatwave linked to 1,300 deaths, WHO says, as Germany hits record 41.7C.

Google, AI, Oligarchy and the End of the ‘Open Web’.

The Rise of the AI Censors.

The Hidden Value In The Human-AI Arrangement.

Millions dropped ObamaCare plans after subsidies ended.

US Layoffs Skyrocket to Highest Level Since Pandemic as Tech Giants Blame AI for 40% of Cuts.

The growing alienation between men and women is, to my mind, one of the biggest stories of our time.

As the Tide Turns Against Putin, Beware the Drowning Man.

One Million Passports Leaked Online.

The ‘Almost Homeless’ Subreddit Is a Stark Glimpse at Soaring Wealth Inequality.

Age verification is just a precursor to attribution of speech. Oh, for sure. That is the goal.